Welcome to the first joint conference between NordicEpi and NorPEN! This conference brings together researchers, students, and professionals to share advances in epidemiological and pharmacoepidemiological research.
Please join us for an exciting scientific programme, 24-hour sunlight, and colleagues from across the Nordic countries and beyond.
Keynote Speakers
We are proud to feature five leading voices in epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology.
Walter Ricciardi, MD, Hon PhD, is a full Professor of Hygiene and Director of the School of Public Health of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Rome). He is the President of the Mission Board for Cancer of the European Commission and of the European Mission Board of Vaccination.
Anton Pottegård, PhD, is a professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the University of Southern Denmark, leading the pharmacoepi research group currently counting around 50 people. He is doing applied pharmacoepi within many different disease areas, with a particular focus on building infrastructure and best practice, in particular on transparency and reproducibility, around use of secondary health data.
Frode Forland is a Scientific Director at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health with over 30 years of leadership experience in Public Health and Infectious Diseases. He recently served as a Senior Advisor to Africa CDC, focusing on Evidence, Health Security, and NCDs. Dr. Forland has led WHO Joint External Evaluations on Health Security and held roles with the Robert Koch Institute, Gavi, and ECDC. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was part of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health’s leadership team. He holds an MD from the University of Oslo and has published extensively on Public and Global Health.
Unnur Anna Valdimarsdóttir, PhD, is a professor of epidemiology and dean of the School of Health Sciences at the University of Iceland. Her research is focused on the complex links between psychological trauma, psychiatric disorders and somatic diseases and her team leverage various Nordic register-cohort-biobank resources and family designs to make advances in this area with support from e.g. the European Research Council (StressGene) and NordForsk (COVIDMENT).
Yu-Han Chiu, MD, ScD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health. Her research focuses on developing and applying novel causal inference methods—such as target trial emulation and methods for transportability—to improve decision-making in pregnancy and cardiovascular health. She is a recipient of the NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award. Dr. Chiu received her MD from National Taiwan University and her ScD in Epidemiology and Nutrition from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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